Who Is Mitt Romney And Why Do We Care?

Rich Yeselson rubbishes attempts to find the "authentic" Mitt beneath his public persona:

Whoever he is, the real Romney is mostly irrelevant. Romney, like all of us, performs the roles he must within the public institutions he inhabits and the different dramas which he plays a part in enacting. There are reasons why he performs on the stages he does—he’ll never be any kind of liberal—but he doesn’t just play the same character every time. Each of those institutions will have a different set of observers with which the individual engages.